On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Hanno Schupp <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > > > I have a few questions regarding the rlm_sqlcounter module and its > configuration. I have a freeradius 2.1.0 communicating with a router running > chillispot 1.1 I set up counters for time, data volume, and with different > reset periods. All works fine and as expected. > > > > Here my questions: > > > > 1) After the time or data volume for a period (say a month) is reached > the user is automatically disconnected – as expected. Rather them not > allowing to log in , I would like freeradius to return some other attributes > (WISPr-Bandwidth-Max-Up and WISPr-Bandwidth-Max-Down work fine with > ChilliSpot) to be sent to the router for the user, so that a connection is > still possible, but at a much lower maximum speed. Can that be done, and if > so, can someone give me a pointer. I was thinking maybe using unlang, but I > may be barking up the wrong tree. >
You might be better off making changes to your provisioning system assuming you are using a database backend although you might be able to get away with unlang. > > > 2) The reset = monthly method seem to the first of the current > month. That is one way of doing it, but I would like the reset to occur at > the same date in the month every month. So if someone signs up, say on the > 12th of a month, the reset will occur every month on the 12th. Can that be > done with freeradius? > > rlm_sqlcounter only support calendar month or day or week. > > 3) Currently I receive something like Reply-Message = "Your maximum > never usage time has been reached" when the counter reaches its limit – > even when what was counted as not time but data volume. Can Reply-Message > for sqlcounter be configured as in the expiration module? > > rlm_sqlcounter does not have provision for cusom reply messages. There was a patch floating around to send custom reply messages from rlm_sqlcounter. Probably you should look in mailing list archives. > > 4) One surprise I have had: I don't quite understand how the system > calculates the day for the beginning of the reset = weekly. I appreciate > that calculating the day of the week is not easy as for example first of the > current month or beginning of the day, so I was not surprised to not have a > Monday, but I was surprised to see the SQL query run with 'Fri Jan 09 2009 > 00:00:00 GMT+1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)' as beginning of the week, > when running the query on a Saturday. BTW, SQL time is configured correctly, > and the UNIX_TIMESTAMP is giving a correct timestamp for local time. What am > I missing? > (Note: When setting reset = 7d, I get something more explainable like 'Sat > Jan 10 2009 00:00:00 GMT+1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)', which is the > beginning of the today's day. Should reset = weekly and reset =7d yield the > same result? If not, what is weekly vs 7d, and why does the week not start > on a Monday? > Thanks, Venkatesh K - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
